Published 2016 by New Zealand Institute of Architects Incorporated, Auckland. 184 pages 222 x 168mm, softcover, with colour illustrations Edited by John Walsh and Kimberly Davis With text by Charles Walker, Kathy Waghorn and John Walsh. Design by Inhouse Printed by Everbest Printing Co. ISBN 978-0-473-34739-0
This exhibition catalogue was published in association with the touring exhibition Future Islands: The New Zealand Exhibition at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale shown at Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery October – December 2017.
How may a country's architecture be communicated and comprehended? Future Islands presents New Zealand architecture as a grouping of metaphorical islands, an imagined archipelago encompassing a variety of approaches and responses to the fluid and uncertain condition of contemporary global practice. 
The exhibition explores some of the opportunities available to architects working in one of the world's smallest, most open, informal and diverse societies. It acknowledges and encourages speculative work because architects - forever optimistic, as they are obliged to be - have a responsibility to develop new ways to help different people live together in changing social and natural environments.
Future Islands puts its faith in architecture's possibilities, its necessary enterprise and requisite adventure - an appropriate commitment in Venice, where for numerous prosperous centuries the merchant galley went on their expeditions, trading risk for reward.

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